Distributed Computing, Multidisciplinary Science and the NSF's Software Insitute Program

分布式计算、多学科科学和 NSF 的软件研究所计划

• 批准号: 1049408
• 负责人: Miron Livny
• 金额: $ 4.53万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1049408&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Distributed; Computing; Multidisciplinary; Science; NSF

Software infrastructure is becoming an ever more important and costly enabler of scientific discovery. The investigators will gather and present input from the science, software developers, and software integrator communities concerning the functions and services (e.g., quality assurance, hosting, training, impacts assessment) that the NSF can provide that would improve the overall quality of the software infrastructure available to our scientists, reduce the cost-of-ownership of this software and maximize the return on the NSF investment in developing, maintaining and evolving this infrastructure.The three communities will be engaged through back-to-back focused workshops that will bring together selected experts from a broad range of fields and disciplines to discuss the life-cycle of software infrastructure. The workshops will generate reports that input to and give requirements for the upcoming NSF's call for Scientific Software Institutes. The first workshop will address the software requirements and expectations of domain scientists whose computational infrastructure consists of distributed resources, including computers, data, and instrumentations as illustrated, for example, by projects such as the LHC experiments, OSG, LIGO, Earth System Grid, SCEC, NEES, caBIG, and BIRN. The collective experiences and drivers from software integrators who have been providing and supporting the software infrastructure for such projects will be discussed in the second workshop. The third workshop will cover the needs and expectations of projects that develop and maintain widely adopted scientific software tools. The three dimensions of scientific software infrastructure will be covered throughout the workshops' vertical that addresses end-to-end requirements, horizontal that accommodates reusability and broad impact, and the software providers who are responsible for developing, supporting and sustaining the software artifacts.

软件基础设施正在成为科学发现的一个越来越重要和昂贵的推动者。调查人员将收集并呈现来自科学、软件开发人员和软件集成商社区的关于功能和服务的输入（例如，质量保证，托管，培训，影响评估），这将提高我们的科学家可用的软件基础设施的整体质量，降低该软件的拥有成本，并最大限度地提高NSF在开发方面的投资回报，维护和发展这一基础设施。这三个社区将通过回到-这些研讨会将汇集来自广泛领域和学科的选定专家，讨论软件基础设施的生命周期。研讨会将生成报告，输入并为即将到来的NSF的科学软件研究所的要求。第一个研讨会将解决领域科学家的软件需求和期望，其计算基础设施由分布式资源组成，包括计算机，数据和仪器，例如，LHC实验，OSG，LIGO，地球系统网格，SCEC，NEES，caBIG和BIRN等项目。 第二次研讨会将讨论为这些项目提供和支持软件基础设施的软件集成商的集体经验和驱动因素。第三个讲习班将讨论开发和维护广泛采用的科学软件工具的项目的需求和期望。科学软件基础设施的三个方面将在整个研讨会中涵盖：解决端到端要求的纵向，适应可重用性和广泛影响的横向，以及负责开发，支持和维护软件产品的软件提供商。